shaista island speciality. has an italian gardener clearing some if he found the good stuff klim masterpiece hidden in a wall of the gallery from where it was stolen over 20 years ago we'll have more. butts we begin with the film tomorrow we are free which is a love story set around the time of the iranian revolution in $979.00 it's also the story of a clash of cultures a german woman married to on a rainy and and a young daughter in the middle of it all the man is driven by the desire to create a free and equal society after the fall of the shah but of course it's not that simple. this film is a labor of love this story behind it has much to do with the filmmakers own life. same process a few took 10 years to make his movie tomorrow we are free gets this feature film

debut as a director and he also wrote the story the film is set in 1979 and tells the story of the married couple beotch and she's a chemist and east germany he's an iranian dissident who fled to east berlin back you know under that current gunfire. when the shah leaves iran they decide to move back to only its homeland along with their daughter sara. but the in this show euphoria is soon turns into disillusionment as radical clerics gain political power and finally turn iran into an islamic republic. that development has dramatic consequences for the family. same per se fi and his family fled the islamic republic when he was 9 years old and settled and west germany his childhood memories have influenced the movie which is also based on a true story. for the director. the film is also

a call for freedom and human rights 40 years after the reigning revolution that's a message that couldn't be more topical. and the director and roger feel safer joins me now thank you very much could be mole topical it mentions is here. it is the it mentions that the story of your own family fleeing the islamic republic but you actually met the real family the stories about this because based on a true story here in berlin right right so it was about 10 years ago we met and they told me their story and i thought well this has to be told this is something that interests me both because it's about iran but also because a part of me is german and we are in europe and we are telling the story through the eyes of the european woman who travels back in time to to this world so it was almost a no brainer and it's become 10 years later really quite topical but absolutely so

you just have to look back at last month in iran where thousands of iranians were protesting and their protest was brutally struck down by the regime and thousands were arrested between 200000 people were killed on the streets so what we are telling is basically the birth of what's happening today around the world and in iran of course where do you run if they're suffering at the hands of the regime even 40 years later now obviously are seeing the film and it looks like you're shooting in iran but obviously because the call. you couldn't so how did you do it as a big compliment for us that the illusion of shooting in iran has sort of managed to get through to to our viewers we shot the inside not understand. and the outside in spain and it was you know how i always see because of the sort of moorish right there are a lot of similarities but what you have to also remember is that we shot a lot of green screen and blue screens so we were able to sort of use. actual

effects and computer technology to fake that image of iran her background. and i want to find out how you found this wonderful cost because i believe you as you said you said it it's been 10 years in the making but i believe you actually have know the cost right we have and all the cars initially but we got into some schedule conflicts with with some of them and so what we had to do is decide. you know these kind of actors who can do all the things that we're asking of them you know speaking multiple languages and being good at acting they're very rare so then we decided to settle on younger actors to maybe less known actors but these people with these 2 actors in the background they were able to convey the love story so beautifully that it's almost like a lock from the beginning and i don't think they're going to remain very anonymous for. you know i hope not. to deserve to be known of that just because they're great they all the superman let's just see another small example here all of the 2 main

characters all going about the direction the revolution in iran has taken to strike us not to be told it's going to get. you guys to the wake of the. let's not get this was on live. and this is going to put it's one in a high action and this is different because it's sort of statement about the right so this is. making us i just did an interview but i can't if you don't if you have . i don't want to talk to me let it go on this. pretty good that's pretty thing it was very convincing to me i have to say i had a lump in my throat at certain points in the film that we would well give away but only the iranian husband he's an intelligent guy he's a lovely guy loves his wife he loves his child. and later in that very scene actually he says he says he's seen the violence he's seen the subjugation of women

which is something that comes on the phone even though even though he lived in europe for 16 years he kind of except why i think there is a way of looking at this where you know a ruler evolution is very rare once in a lifetime experience right so sometimes when something like this happens where you can reorganize and refashion a whole society in another image away from what you've hated before you see that as a great opportunity and you start projecting things into it you want to think things to be the way you project them to be and you sort of ignore all the noise that is sort of in a way of that image that you want it to be so being intelligent is doesn't make you immune from dreaming about something and that's what the problem is he also says and i quote. every revolution has a price were not written in script on a curve do you think it does well i think the question is does

a violent revolution ever and in a democratic society and my personal opinion is that the moment that a revolution or a people is introduced violence the most violent elements that lead it will want to preserve their control of the revolution and so democracy and relinquishing power is imminently impossible so if you look at german history maybe european history if you look at the fall of the or the berlin wall for instance the only way this could work in these countries was. because it was without violence thank you very much for coming in today hosain for safety it's a wonderful film i urge people to see it it's called tomorrow we are free check it out google it or whatever thanks for having the facts. british artist. those are little out of the ordinary no palace in paint brushes but instead children's play dough a kitchen chopping board a scalpel and an empty wine bottle is

a rolling pin then just to work fast as the play dough she mulled sets quickly and she needs to take some photos and treat is mole. colorful modeling pouty it's an ideal plaything for kids but it can also be used to create genuine wet savant. especially in the hands of london artist ellen mcmahon. the fact 6 years ago a knack of got friends and they ran a photographic pub quiz at one of their minds was to remake a famous photograph in place and my team won that one and say really i just. the idea inspired a knock project but it's anything but child's play the challenge for elena is to complete the figure in just a few hours the modeling compound dries quickly and turns brittle she has to

balance speed with precision. i think the eye is used to take me through the longest time. and if the ice go wrong it's really hard to catch that my. photos from the internet and recreate them have favorite subjects images by well known for talking friends such as nicholas murray cindy sherman and diane arbus. i think spirit some people judging it as just throw away. and i think the reason is that we're very quick to charge and say face can't or it's bad and so i think i'm playing around with that little bat asking the question that can it because it upsets me from paying this lame to rio and because it's popular on the

internet does it mean it's necessarily bad it's popular in the long form as well a london gallery commissioned her to make models for an exhibition they became surrealistic rendered in plato. gallery manager gareth meredith says their real attention getters what's so special about this exhibition i guess it's elena's concept of taking surveillance artists recapturing them in 3 plates sculptures and blowing about into large scale here. in the 1920 s. surrealist like french or thought onto a britain experimented with the 1st automated photo booths in paris. and then mcnair turns the black and white post more photos into colorful close ups. but no matter how big a success the photo of a model may be all the figures meet the same fate. they're destroyed none of them survived longer than one day.

and these are just space of only half right. it's like when we're looking through the images on our fans every day we see hundreds and hundreds and we take stock in the day viii the images highly enough so it's kind of a player not a modeling party becomes a work of art but it's finally referred to with the regional unbuilt for. finally the. location of this painting portrait of a lady by go stuff clipped one of the world's most sought off the missing artworks as being a mystery since it was stolen from an art gallery in chance it's a day back in 1997. the italian fleece are now investigating off the painting was discovered hidden in a wall of the very gallery where it been previously been on display however the

mystery deepens as the gallery and its surroundings were checked with a fine tooth comb after the theft on the painting is also in excellent condition so it couldn't have been there for the last 2 decades it's still to be authenticated but it does look like it's the original. will keep you up to date on my story as it develops because it someone is going to do benefits and it's an intriguing moment that's all for now though from arts and culture thanks for watching i am.

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